Anniversaries

05
Dec

December 5, 1904 - Death of Lucy Everest Boole, first female professor at the London School of Medicine for Women and first female member of the Royal Institute of Chemistry

06
Dec

December 6, 1863 - Birth of Charles Martin Hall, developed a method to economise the production of aluminium

08
Dec

December 8, 1953 – President Eisenhower delivers his ‘Atoms for Peace’ speech

09
Dec

December 9, 1995 – Death of Katharine Way, known for her great contribution to nuclear physics and the construction of the Chicago Pile-1 reactor

09
Dec

December 9, 1748 - Birth of Claude Louis Berthollet, his system of chemical nomenclature was the basis of the current system of naming chemical compounds

10
Dec

December 10, 1906 - Birth of Walter Zinn, demonstrated that uranium underwent fission when bombarded with neutrons

11
Dec

December 11, 2021 – Death of Vera Kistiakowsky, an expert in nuclear chemistry and physics, particle physics, and astrophysics

11
Dec

December 11, 1882 - Birth of Max Born, the man Einstein turned to whenever he had doubts about quantum mechanics

13
Dec

December 13, 1888 - Birth of Catherine Chamié, measured the half-life of radon for the first time

15
Dec

December 15, 1852 - Birth of Antoine Henri Becquerel, who shared the Nobel Prize for the discovery of spontaneous radioactivity

15
Dec

December 15, 1958 – Death of Wolfgang Pauli, Nobel Laureate for his Exclusion Principle, proposing a fourth quantum number, and theorizing about the neutrino

16
Dec

December 16, 1954 – Tracy Hall manufactures synthetic diamonds for the first time at the General Electric Research Laboratories

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